[Ledger-discuss] opening/closing accounts

[Kevin R. <us...@zi...>]

In my home brew accounting stuff I make myself explicitly mark an open
and then later close of an account, so I can't accidentally post to old
accounts if cutting and pasting.  Does ledger have a similar thing?

I know it's a feature of ledger just to use an account name without
pre-declaring, but I wondered if there was an option to be more
restrictive.

A deliberate close makes some sense for an asset account which shouldn't
be touched once sold etc.  I also do each tax year's numbers in their
own accounts, to be closed and not touched again once finalized.  Dunno
if an accountant would approve. :-)